Huo Guang led his troops to the southern expedition toward Chang'an. It took only ten days to reach Chang'an less than a hundred miles away. As the distance between Chang'an became closer, Huo Guang felt something was getting worse. Logically speaking, there were already a large number of tourists going out for a walk outside the Chang'an city in spring, and even though there should be many people coming and going on this official road.

Could it be that they knew that their army returned to Chang'an today and these people did not appear on the official road? Or was the incident between Zhuang Qingzhai and Zhang Tang so serious? Huo Guang couldn't help but think of it.

Seeing that Chang'an City was already close, Huo Guang and others who had already walked to the front of the team could vaguely see the outline of the tall city tower of Chang'an City.

"Report...General, there are all the magistrates from the court five miles ahead to greet him." A scout came to report to him. Huo Guang immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Send the entire army to slow down."

Five miles further ahead is only ten miles away from the Zhuque Gate in Chang'an City. When Wei Qing and Huo Qubing returned from the north to defeat the Huns, Emperor Wu of Han once went out of the city to welcome him. It was a great honor to let the ministers in the court go out of the city to welcome him ten miles, but in the end, Rongrong was a little short of the line. When he thought of the turmoil in the court, Emperor Wu of Han might be in a bad mood, Huo Guang felt that it was reasonable.

Considering that there were ministers in court to greet each other in front, the team was much slower, and it was almost ten miles away from Chang'an. Huo Guang, far away, saw the carriages and horses gathering flags on the open space beside the official road, and there were no less than a hundred court officials dressed in high costumes in the center of the official road.

Huo Guang glanced over and saw Wei Qing, Shang Qiu Cheng, Sang Hongyang, Du Zhou and others standing in the forefront, and he thought silently. Except for Zhuang Qing, Zhai and Zhang Tang, the three dukes and nine ministers in the court, and officials over a thousand stones were all present.

When everyone was still a hundred feet away, Huo Guang tied the reins, then turned over and dismounted the horse and walked towards the court officials. Seeing Huo Guang rolled over and dismounted, several generals behind him also dismounted, and then his personal soldiers came up and led the standing horse behind him.

"Welcome General Pingnan to return in triumphantly!" Under Wei Qing's leadership, the court officials bowed and bowed to Huo Guang. No matter how high or low the official position was, they were just congratulations to the soldiers who returned after victory.

"It's all up to Your Majesty's wisdom and martial arts. The court officials are doing their best. Huo Guang is ashamed of it!" Huo Guang would not take this kind of courteous ritual, and immediately returned the tribute to the ministers in the court. Moreover, he played his waist lower, and the generals behind him naturally followed Huo Guang back the tribute.

When the two sides greeted each other, Huo Guang took the initiative to approach everyone, walked ten feet away, and gave another greeting to Wei Qing, saying, "I have seen the general."

Wei Qing received this gift calmly, then looked at Huo Guang with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Good thing, just come back!"

"Haha, the general is too modest. General Pingnan has destroyed Nanyue Dongyue and Qilan in less than a year of southern expedition, and added nine counties in the southeast to our Han Dynasty. This is a great achievement of expanding territory!" Daxing ordered Shangqiu Chengzhuo to stand beside Wei Qing. Seeing that Wei Qing was just like an elder looking at his nephew, he spoke from the side.

Huo Guang felt warm in his heart just saying something like homely to Wei Qing. In Huo Guang's opinion, this sentence alone is better than a compliment of tens of millions of words.

"Yes, yes, General Pingnan won a great victory in his army, with tens of thousands of troops under his command. Such a mighty army is enough to wipe out the world!" A disharmonious voice sounded in the crowd. The man praised Huo Guang on the surface, but only one sentence made the whole atmosphere extremely solidified.

"Oh, this person is so handsome? I wonder who you are?" Huo Guang's voice seemed to be heard, and then he asked an official in his early forties in the crowd.

"Yang Ping, the left supervisor of the lower magistrate, has met General Pingnan." This middle-aged official looked neither humble nor arrogant.

"Da Xing Order, should I go to pay homage to Your Majesty?" Huo Guang did not go against this man named Yang Ping, but ignored this man. Instead, he asked Shang Qiu Cheng with a normal face, but Yang Ping was embarrassed for a moment.

"Haha, General Pingnan, please go first. Your Majesty has already held a banquet for the general in Weiyang Palace. We will arrive later." Shangqiu Cheng said with a smile.

"Why is this?" Huo Guang felt a little confused.

"Your Majesty specially granted the general the imperial road to cross the horse through Chang'an. It's such an honor that I am still unique!" Shang Qiucheng said to Huo Guang with envy.

The ministers in the court learned about this in advance and did not show much surprise. However, Huo Guang and the soldiers of the Southern Expedition were excited. Using the imperial road and crossing the horse to Chang'an was indeed an unprecedented honor. Only the emperor can use the imperial road. Even if the prince uses it, he will be impeached by the censor. Ordinary officials or the common people will be dismissed from office and exiled, and the worst is that he will be beheaded.

Unlike the civil and military officials and soldiers of the Southern Expedition who thought this was an honor, Huo Guang was a little nervous. Compared to the emperor who went out of the city to greet him personally, although walking on the imperial road and crossing Chang'an was also a manifestation of favor, the final result of one low-key and the other high-profile was completely different. First, Yang Ping's inexplicable words of heart-killing words, and then the unprecedented honor of Emperor Wu of Han. Huo Guang didn't know what he sold in the gourd of Emperor Wu of Han?

"Since that's the case, Huo Guang will take one step first!" Huo Guang knew that since Emperor Wu of Han had issued an order, he had to go with the imperial road and cross Chang'an.

After saying goodbye to everyone, Huo Guang turned his horse on his horse and led his generals and his soldiers forward again. This time, Huo Guang did not deliberately slow down his speed. The sound of horse hooves made by tens of thousands of troops, the sound of the collision of armor, and the smoke and dust raised, made the army of the southern expedition rush past the courtiers like a torrent of steel.

These southern expedition troops have slaughtered several cities and killed hundreds of tribes in the mountains and forests of Nanyue. Each of them had no less than ten lives. The bloody smell on the battlefield made the ministers who were not very determined in their minds frightened. Only Wei Qing watched the more than 20,000 troops rolling by and nodded with satisfaction.

"Da Nong Ling see how the army of General Pingnan?" After Huo Guang's army left, the man named Yang Ping spoke again. This time he directly asked Sang Hongyang who was standing in front of him.

"Why are you still stunned? Standing here to eat dirt? Go back to Weiyang Palace to drink!" Before Sang Hongyang could answer, Wei Qing shouted at the top of his voice. He is the Grand Sima General, and his status is still above the Three Dukes. When he spoke, no one dared to say anything. He boarded the carriages or horses that came back to Chang'an City.

"Your Majesty, do you want to kill that guy named Yang Ping? A small official named Qianshi dares to be sarcastic in front of you!" As soon as Huo Guang's team passed by the court officials, Shangguan Jie rushed to Huo Guang and whispered. Just now, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the left supervisor of the court named Yang Ping was deliberately targeting Huo Guang.

"Don't worry about him, just a pawn. Do you know why I ignored him just now? No matter what I said just now, people would be regarded as domineering. Now he is even more unmoved. His death is just as the wish of some people. So not only can't kill him, but people have to send someone to protect him secretly. You can make arrangements!" Huo Guang not only did not agree with Shangguan Jie's suggestion, but also asked Shangguan Jie to send someone to protect Yang Ping. However, Shangguan Jie was not a fool, so he quickly understood and took the order and retreated.

"Fu Lihou, I will work hard tonight. Take the soldiers to Shanglinyuan stationed. You must restrain your brothers. I guess His Majesty will come to Shanglinyuan to pay a reward tomorrow. You must not make any mistakes tonight." Huo Guang rode his horse in front. Seeing that the Zhuque Gate in Chang'an City became tighter and tighter, he stepped up his pace to continue to arrange military affairs.

On the way back to Chang'an, Huo Guang received an order to temporarily place the Southern Expedition Army in Shanglinyuan. This arrangement was in line with the convention, but the scenes just now forced Huo Guang to be careful. After all, Shanglinyuan is a royal garden, but you have to restrain your soldiers and never make any mistakes.

"Please rest assured, I will not let anyone use our Nanxing Army! Please be more careful tonight." Lu Bode is worthy of being the one who selected Huo Qubing to assist Huo Guang. Without Huo Guang's explanation, he has already seen the unusual.

"Okay, let's leave here!" Huo Guang said as he turned his horse's head and led the twelve guards and Huo Tang toward the Zhuque Gate. However, when he turned his horse's head, Huo Guang turned around and nodded to Huo Tang. Huo Tang said a few words to Huo Shiyi beside him. When Huo Guang appeared outside the Zhuque Gate a while later, there were nine more war horses with cloth beside him besides the twelve guards behind him.

"Dropping off the horse" Huo Guang gave the order and set off the horses in front of countless people and soldiers watching the Zhuque Gate.

When Huo Guang arrived at Zhuque Gate, he found that the entire Chang'an City was gathered on both sides of the imperial road because of him. The soldiers on both sides guarded the imperial road and blocked the onlookers with human walls. In the original plan, Huo Guang should have galloped past the imperial road with one horse and one horse, and finally entered the Weiyang Palace to enjoy the banquet of Emperor Wu of Han, which was recorded in history with the congratulations of civil and military officials of the court.

But when Huo Guang stepped onto the imperial road, he violated the will of Emperor Wu of Han. He did not cross Chang'an, but led nine war horses tied together, and struck bundles of strange cloth and walked along the imperial road towards Weiyang Palace. He should have shouted Wan Sheng, but the crazy and boiling onlookers were already confused. They could only whisper and discuss why General Pingnan got off the war horse and what was the nine war horses refuted?

Questions, curiosity, and puzzled, not only surrounded the people of Chang'an who were watching, but also the ministers in the court who later returned to Chang'an one after another, as well as the Emperor Wu of Han who had already waited for Huo Guang to return in Weiyang Palace...

Huo Guang walked for a long time, and when he saw the eaves of the Weiyang Palace Hall, the last ray of sunset disappeared under the eaves.

"Your Majesty, you have really given me a lot of surprises... These unusual honors were probably left to my brother, right?" Huo Guang stepped on the imperial road step by step, his eyes shining through the high walls and palaces, as if he saw the Emperor Wu of Han sitting high in the Weiyang Palace hall, and was smiling at the moment.
Chapter completed!